20090921

CE biweekly meeting

Sep 21, 2009

Teaching

Roger Johansson presented ICT Academy (briefly)
Latest info says tuition fees from 2011
Fee for applying to master programmes will likely be introduced ($100?)

- Assume waivers for poor countries

Personnel

Peter Öhman (SET) on leave for one more year
Morten Fjeld to move to Lindholmen
Ruben Gonzalez has accepted PostDoc offer (from 0100101)
ID faculty position search inconclusive

Department issues

Junior faculty members can be recruited locally

- Local hiring committee will be set up

- Chalmers hiring committee must still be involved, albeit not actively

Div heads up for optional second term

Department economy

Economy followup: larger surplus than projected

- Delays in hiring

Teaching is still in the red!

- Fewer students...

- Figures still fishy (imho)

There may be lessons in how the strategy funding applications were worked out!

Chalmers issues

Focus areas identified (including ICT)

- A director will be named for each

Principles of funding distribution up for discussion (again...)

AOI

Email server swap scheduled for Oct 19-21

- Each user will lack email connectivity for one of these evenings

- If date is very inconvenient, yell now

- Seminars in following day(s)

Dates to avoid for Christmas party? If so, tell Eva Paulson